Pages From Her Monday Notebook
I appeared in the Xin Min Daily News tonight.
Well, I am speaking on behalf of my jeans... Was having lunch at a coffeeshop at Simei when the Worker's Party's candidates for East Coast came up to me and friend and her hubby. But upon hearing that we are Sunday worshippers, they politely passed their leaflets to us and urge us to give it to our "friends who live in the east coast area". All these were done while a photograper takes pictures. We were like.. Huh, why are they taking our photos? Granted that we do not live there, it still feels weird. They then move on to the next table with 2 uncles and their grandsons and talked to them. This was the reason why my jeans came on the newspapers. Friend's hubby had a small shot featured. We were behind the uncles' table you see.
What an experience on a near-election Sunday. First time see candidates doing area visits. Interesting.
Then I saw another non-PAP nominated opposition party MP at Expo too.
Politics is in the air...
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Newspaper also reported that Chinese brides are no longer that popular, more local men go for Vietnamese brides.
Singapore... is having more and more S.E. Asian immigrants... Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesians, Malaysians... This melting pot has alot more flavours added in the recent years. Not that I feel threatened or what. Just feel that it's quite overwhelming to know that the environment/history of how our ancesters first started off (made up of people from different races, different countries, different values)is repeating itself again. The next generation will talk about how they are natives, or how their moms come from China, Vietnam, Indonesia...
I am not angry, or feeling very strongly against this change in the country. I just feel weird. Suddenly, it is so in your face, you know what I mean? This period of Singapore becoming a home of the nations.
Will my nieces become A Singaporean native ? an Aboriginal? An Orang Asli?
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GA is very sad tonight. If what it shows correctly reflects(give and take, 60%?) what happens in the Emergency Ward, or for that matter, the hospital, I really want to salute to doctors and nurses. They do not just see gory and things that could make you throw up buckets, but they probably also have had their hearts broken by patients they have to let go.
While still stuck, she could still crack jokes and was a memorable character to the tense situation. The white girl who was stucked with a black man by a rod that went through them. She was let go to die in the end because she has a weaker possibility of survival. That moment was hardbreaking, especially when Meredith tried to save her even when she has passed away and the surgeons have to move on to save the black man. They were one of the many patients who were wheeled in when a train was derailed. The interns have to be called back to help out at the hospital for this emergency.
It was sad. Even the lighter moments (Cristina was desperately seeking a lost leg for a patient and made a blunder of getting a shaven, manicured leg for a man), could not cover the sadness of the whole situation. Many people were injured, one even had internal bleeding without knowing and died at her friend's bed. That was Alex, but he manage to save himself when a paramedic deliver the missing leg to him and he proceed to send it to the Chief for operation.
The episode highlights the intensity when a disaster strucks. The helplessness of men when things happened beyond what they can do. For a moment, when Derek talks to the fiancee of the girl who had to be let go (I can't hear clearly what she told him to tell her), I realised that doctors are also the buffer of the society. They are the ones who know what exactly is medically happening, and they have to put it in layman terms to the patient, or their families. Sometimes they have to withhold information, sometimes they have to try to make the patients understand, other times, they are just contradicting themselves and with each other.
Which is a little bit like the media, isn't it? What is right, what is wrong, what to believe, what not to believe... They are one of the main causes why people are believing less and less of what they hear. It's so hard to believe because we get the diluted version of the real story.
Hmmm... oh, by the way, Derek chose Ellison. The Wife. Over Meredith, the person who slept with a married man.
American Television. They know the desires of their viewers so well.
Well, I am speaking on behalf of my jeans... Was having lunch at a coffeeshop at Simei when the Worker's Party's candidates for East Coast came up to me and friend and her hubby. But upon hearing that we are Sunday worshippers, they politely passed their leaflets to us and urge us to give it to our "friends who live in the east coast area". All these were done while a photograper takes pictures. We were like.. Huh, why are they taking our photos? Granted that we do not live there, it still feels weird. They then move on to the next table with 2 uncles and their grandsons and talked to them. This was the reason why my jeans came on the newspapers. Friend's hubby had a small shot featured. We were behind the uncles' table you see.
What an experience on a near-election Sunday. First time see candidates doing area visits. Interesting.
Then I saw another non-PAP nominated opposition party MP at Expo too.
Politics is in the air...
- - - - - - - - -
Newspaper also reported that Chinese brides are no longer that popular, more local men go for Vietnamese brides.
Singapore... is having more and more S.E. Asian immigrants... Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesians, Malaysians... This melting pot has alot more flavours added in the recent years. Not that I feel threatened or what. Just feel that it's quite overwhelming to know that the environment/history of how our ancesters first started off (made up of people from different races, different countries, different values)is repeating itself again. The next generation will talk about how they are natives, or how their moms come from China, Vietnam, Indonesia...
I am not angry, or feeling very strongly against this change in the country. I just feel weird. Suddenly, it is so in your face, you know what I mean? This period of Singapore becoming a home of the nations.
Will my nieces become A Singaporean native ? an Aboriginal? An Orang Asli?
- - - - - - - - -
GA is very sad tonight. If what it shows correctly reflects(give and take, 60%?) what happens in the Emergency Ward, or for that matter, the hospital, I really want to salute to doctors and nurses. They do not just see gory and things that could make you throw up buckets, but they probably also have had their hearts broken by patients they have to let go.
While still stuck, she could still crack jokes and was a memorable character to the tense situation. The white girl who was stucked with a black man by a rod that went through them. She was let go to die in the end because she has a weaker possibility of survival. That moment was hardbreaking, especially when Meredith tried to save her even when she has passed away and the surgeons have to move on to save the black man. They were one of the many patients who were wheeled in when a train was derailed. The interns have to be called back to help out at the hospital for this emergency.
It was sad. Even the lighter moments (Cristina was desperately seeking a lost leg for a patient and made a blunder of getting a shaven, manicured leg for a man), could not cover the sadness of the whole situation. Many people were injured, one even had internal bleeding without knowing and died at her friend's bed. That was Alex, but he manage to save himself when a paramedic deliver the missing leg to him and he proceed to send it to the Chief for operation.
The episode highlights the intensity when a disaster strucks. The helplessness of men when things happened beyond what they can do. For a moment, when Derek talks to the fiancee of the girl who had to be let go (I can't hear clearly what she told him to tell her), I realised that doctors are also the buffer of the society. They are the ones who know what exactly is medically happening, and they have to put it in layman terms to the patient, or their families. Sometimes they have to withhold information, sometimes they have to try to make the patients understand, other times, they are just contradicting themselves and with each other.
Which is a little bit like the media, isn't it? What is right, what is wrong, what to believe, what not to believe... They are one of the main causes why people are believing less and less of what they hear. It's so hard to believe because we get the diluted version of the real story.
Hmmm... oh, by the way, Derek chose Ellison. The Wife. Over Meredith, the person who slept with a married man.
American Television. They know the desires of their viewers so well.
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